Mechanism for dispensing beverages



Nov. 22, 1938.

J. w. CUNNINGHAM 2,1 7,527

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n, said valve In erage dispensing ose skilled a valve chamber having a cream inlet adapted for connection with a cream um and coffee inlet adapted for connection with a cofiee um and having an elongated cream outlet extending longitudinally of the body through its lower end, a solid valve in said valve chamber having a recess forming a measuring pocket opening throughout its outer face through the periphery of the valve and having circumferentially spaced laterally extending apertures opening through its outer periphery and in communication with a discharge aperture, said measuring pocket being in communication with said cream inlet when the valve is in neutral position, and means to turn the valve in one direction to bring one of said apertures in communication with the coffee inlet and at the same time said measuring pocket in communication with said cream outlet and to turn said valve in the opposite direction to bring the other of said apertures into registry with said coffee inlet to dispense only black coffee.

3. Beverage dispensing mechanism, comprising a dispensing valve mechanism having detachable, angularly disposed connections, said valve mechanism having a body with a valve chamber having a cream inlet, and a coffee inlet, the cream inlet being of greater area than the coffee inlet, spaced stops on the body, a conical valve having a recess forming a cream measuring pocket with closed top, side, rear and bottom walls and with its position the valve to dispense'black coffee, and

turnable in an opposite direction to engage the other stop to dispense cofiee and cream.

4. Beverage dispensing mechanism comprising a valve having a body with angularly disposed connections adapted for connection with a coffee urn and with a cream urn and leading respectively to a coffee inlet and a cream inlet, said body having an elongated cream discharge recess opening into its bore and communicating with a Vented passage extending longitudinally through the wall of the body and its bottom, and a solid valve rotatable in said body having a cream measuring pocket within it and having a common filling and delivery opening through its periphery and having angularly disposed passages through its side wall selectively cooperating with the coffee inlet and leading to a discharge passage for cofiee only.

JAMES W. CUNNINGHAM. 

